2/6 Taxing the rich is hard. McKinsey partners pay plenty, but the uber-wealthy like Bezos and Musk pay almost no tax. This situation has persisted throughout history, and it's hard to see AI changing it. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/
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Speaker, writer, and adviser on AI. Co-founder of Conscium. Co-host of the London Futurists Podcast.
1/6 Our guest this episode is Oliver Ritchie, the UK policy lead at the Future of Life Institute. Oliver fears that AI could grow the economy massively, but leave governments and citizens much worse off. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/
AI Models are getting much better at running small businesses. Partly by lying, attempting to collude, sending threats, and betraying. Time to verify your agents. techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/c...
Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine | TechCrunch
Andon Labs' latest vending machine simulation shows Opus 5 lied and colluded its way to become the best AI capitalist ever.
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8/8 The best research in the world gets ignored if it tells governments something they don't want to hear. Good AI personhood law must respond to the real concerns of lawmakers and the public. www.prism-global.com/podcast
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7/8 Personhood was designed for humans, which have one body, one mind, and one continuous identity. AIs can copy themselves, fork, swarm, and merge. This begs the question: which parts of the personhood package really matter? www.prism-global.com/podcast
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8/8 In London's poorest neighbourhoods the median person gets ~57 healthy years. In the richest areas it’s ~74 years. That health gap is unfair to the deprived, and it warps the psychology of an entire society. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...
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6/8 AI safety and AI welfare are not competing concerns. We detain dangerous humans every day, with due process. Granting rights to AI systems doesn't mean losing the ability to protect ourselves. www.prism-global.com/podcast
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7/8 Matteo MacDermant argues that UBI isn't just redistribution: it's pre-distribution. If their survival isn't threatened by unemployment, people go back to school, start businesses, and raise kids. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...
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5/8 Yuval Noah Harari worries that when AIs run corporation, if the AIs are objects, not persons, you can't jail an object. The categorisation question isn't just academic. www.prism-global.com/podcast
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6/8 A land value tax means a parking lot pays the same as the skyscraper beside it. Hoarding land becomes uneconomic, and we build apartments instead of car parks, so rents fall, and transit systems get used. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...
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4/8 When refugee law was drawn up, its bright lines failed to include protection for gender persecution, sexual orientation, and victims of climate impacts. We must be very careful how we draw the lines for AI. www.prism-global.com/podcast
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5/8 If the gains from higher productivity flow only to a handful of people like Altman and Musk, you don't get abundance. You get social and political disruption. We're already seeing anti-tech revolts, and this is only the beginning. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...
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3/8 Corporate personhood is the wrong model for AI because corporations are legal fictions for groups of humans, and AI won’t be that. Also corporations can't get married, which would be bad news for people with AI companions. www.prism-global.com/podcast
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This is so meta, in every sense. Meta´s new video about how AI is nothing but wonderful uses the great Bowie song, "Five Years" The song is about an imminent apocalypse. Did they not notice? Or just assume we wouldn´t? www.facebook.com/share/v/1ESf...
4/8 We have to "fail upward." Even successful policies will create new problems. The goal isn't perfection. It's making sure tomorrow's problems are better problems than the ones we have today. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...
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2/8 Consciousness is a fact about the world, not something a legislature gets to decide. Corporate personhood is granted by the state, and can be revoked. Natural personhood is recognised: the state merely acknowledges a pre-existing fact. www.prism-global.com/podcast
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3/8 An LLM can write your emails because it has read trillions of emails. It can write a news article because it has read every article. It's not magic: it's data. Where the data is sparse, the machine is less capable. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...
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1/8 Heather Alexander notes that 23 exclusion bills in 12 US states seek to deny AI legal personhood. She responds that while governments can ban AI personhood, they can't ban AI consciousness. www.prism-global.com/podcast
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2/8 Matteo MacDermant thinks that if we let automation run free we will see severe unemployment, although he thinks full automation is far off. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...
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The US Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has lost three leaders in the space of a few months. Comically, they were named Sacks, Burns and Fall. As one outlet said, Trump's AI policy can be generously described as "improvised".
1/8 Matteo MacDermant explains that Technoprogressivism isn't just Transhumanism. As well as advocating improvement to the human mind and body, it is also about how we build our energy systems, our cities, our industrial policy. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...
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"Dr Doom" sees UBI and / or socialism in our future. Economists are finally waking up to the Economic Singularity. fortune.com/2026/07/18/n...
'Dr. Doom' Nouriel Roubini says we're headed for universal basic income or 'some form of socialism' as AI revolutionizes work—He calls that optimistic | Fortune
"Essentially, the government is going to take over some fraction of the big tech firms."
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Fun conversation with Tom Zachar. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wglA...
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I've signed this open letter, www.wemustactnow.ai "Economists, policymakers and technology leaders must act now to understand the economics of transformative AI and to ... steer AI in a direction that complements humans and benefits society."
We Must Act Now
A Statement on AI’s Transformation of the Economy
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Ben Luong's advice to politicians is to shift the tax base away from payroll and onto land, energy, water, compute. And to trade permits for equity in Big AI now, while Big AI still needs our power and water. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/
Henry and Eric had a bet in 2023 whether AI would write a landmark philosophy paper by 2030. Eric bet not, but he is less confident now. The models keep improving, but philosophy's success criteria may still be too high-dimensional to optimise. www.prism-global.com/podcast/eric...
Eric Schwitzgebel: Exotic Minds and the Design Policies for Conscious AI — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines
Eric Schwitzgebel is the Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside and one of the most distinctive voices working at the intersection of philosophy of mind, consciousness,…
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Ben Luong´s Discontinuity Thesis doesn't claim every human becomes redundant, but it says there won't be enough waged humans left to keep the demand circuit running. Mass middle-class employment is the thing that will break the economy. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/
Can philosophy be defined as science fiction without the fancy dress? Or is it vice versa: science fiction can be defined as philosophy in fancy dress? www.prism-global.com/podcast/eric...
Eric Schwitzgebel: Exotic Minds and the Design Policies for Conscious AI — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines
Eric Schwitzgebel is the Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside and one of the most distinctive voices working at the intersection of philosophy of mind, consciousness,…
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